Bernard Edlington

Current

Renderman Consultant/Researcher at OLM Digital, Inc.
Siggraph Asia 2009 Courses Committee at ACM SIGGRAPH
Founder, Chief at TokyoGAF

President & Founder at RenderSan
Render consultant, international consultant, CEO at Nexus International LLC, Japan
Render consultant, CEO at Nexus International LLC, USA

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Past

RenderMan consultant at Sega
Renderman Consultant/Researcher at OLM Digital
IT security development and consulting at Fujifilm

Art director, Animator, Technical director at Monolith, Co (Japan)
Installation artist at Kyushu Government
Visual Effects at Monolith / TBS
Shader Artist at Monolith / TBS
Shader Artist at Monolith / TBS / DML
Shader Artist at Monolith & Eyedentify Inc.
Art director, Visial effects, Computer Animator at JOCX Fuji Television
Senior videographics designer at Network Ten
Animator at Network TEN

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Education

University of South Australia

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Connections

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

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Bernard Edlington’s Summary

A veteran of 20+ years in the animation & computer graphics industry. I create content for film, broadcast and other media. I would describe myself as an artist, with a technical edge.
Creative skills which I use to solve problems in new and meaningful ways for myself and global Fortune 500 companies.
Technical skills which I use to help research into new tools for this industry.
I have worked with many people around the world and in many languages, my skill to communicate with a smile makes my long days seem worthwhile.
Had the following titles artist, art director, lead animator, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, futurist, inventor, programmer, render man, shader artist, technical director.
There is not much I have not done in my field, and probably nothing I wouldn't give a try.

Bernard Edlington’s Specialties:

International negotiation experience.
Multilingual in human and computer languages C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Tcl, Php, Ocaml, Mel, actionscript, etc...
Creative (Fine arts) background.
Systems: Solaris, Linux, Irix, Unix, Os X.
Software: in-house, 3Delight, After Effects, Flash, Houdini, Illustrator, Maya, Mayaman, Photoshop, Pixar's Renderman, Shake, Shave & Haircut, Studio Tools, XSI.
Skills: rigging, animating, lighting, compositing, modeling, texturing.
Main tool: Pixar's Renderman

Bernard Edlington’s Experience

Renderman Consultant/Researcher

OLM Digital, Inc.

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

June 2009 — Present (7 months)

Contracted to develop new tools for RenderMan compliant pipeline for Motion Pictures. Details are currently under Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Siggraph Asia 2009 Courses Committee

ACM SIGGRAPH

(Non-Profit; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Founder, Chief

TokyoGAF

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Tokyo Game/Animation/Film Production Network. Community to introduce and network with people from our industries from here in Tokyo and around the world.
President & Founder

RenderSan

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

RenderSan:: the RenderMan(R) Community of Japan
Community founded to spread the use of RenderMan in Japan.
Render consultant, international consultant, CEO

Nexus International LLC, Japan

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Hands on boss, I help other companies here with solutions for computer graphics and rendering.
Render consultant, CEO

Nexus International LLC, USA

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
RenderMan consultant

Sega

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Games industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Renderman Consultant/Researcher

OLM Digital

(Animation industry)

July 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Created a RenderMan procedural based feather systems for use in the short film "One Pair". The same technology was used in procedurals for the film "Giratina and the Sky Warrior".
IT security development and consulting

Fujifilm

(Public Company; FUJIY; Consumer Goods industry)

April 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Consultant and initial developer of encrypted asset management system for FujiFilm's administration. Making it simple and secure for hundreds of managers to share assets in over 16 countries. Based on open source technology I applied my knowledge of wrangling graphics data and applied it to an international b2b model.
Art director, Animator, Technical director

Monolith, Co (Japan)

(Entertainment industry)

April 1997 — June 2007 (10 years 3 months)

Events, commercials, promotion, and animation for many hundreds of clients including:
AMD
Casio
Daikin Comtec
DoCoMo
DTI
FujiFilm
Hakuhodo
Hitachi
Honda
JVC
Menard
NHK
Nintendo
NTT
NTT communications
PIA
Suzuki
TBS
Tokyo Gas
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force
Yomiko
Installation artist

Kyushu Government

(Government Relations industry)

August 2002 — October 2002 (3 months)

One of many museum pieces:
A permanent AR (augmented reality) exhibit for the Unzen Fugen Dake memorial in Kyushu. I created an AR exhibit to explain the nature of the volcano. Hardware by Kyushu University and Shimadzu, organized by Yellow 2.
Other similar AR/High tech exhibits for:
Tokyo Metro Gvt. (Aqualine)
Japanese National Football League
Visual Effects

Monolith / TBS

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

November 1999 — January 2000 (3 months)

Visual effects for Japanese movie "Keizoku the movie"
Shader Artist

Monolith / TBS

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

October 1998 — December 1998 (3 months)

RenderMan Shader Artist for Natural phenomena (esp. snow) in the Japanese film "Himitsu".
Shader Artist

Monolith / TBS / DML

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

January 1998 — March 1998 (3 months)

Renderman Shader artist for Japanese film Andromedia
Shader Artist

Monolith & Eyedentify Inc.

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

March 1997 — August 1997 (6 months)

RenderMan Shader Artist for Hollywood movie "Spawn"
Art director, Visial effects, Computer Animator

JOCX Fuji Television

(Broadcast Media industry)

January 1992 — January 1996 (4 years 1 month)
Senior videographics designer

Network Ten

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1990 — December 1991 (2 years )

Network TEN (Sydney): Worked on news and promotins for the network. Trained Koreans on Quantel systems for the Seoul Olympics. Quantel artist for the design of the "ten logo" which is still in use today accross all Australia.
Animator

Network TEN

(Broadcast Media industry)

1988 — January 1990 (2 years )

Network Ten (Adelaide):Produced my own short animated skits for children's television - 15 per week. I was given a studio whilst still doing my BA, computer animation was highly experimental. The show I worked on Recieved commendation in the New York Film and TV festival.

Bernard Edlington’s Education

University of South Australia

1987 — 1989

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Bernard Edlington’s Interests:

Snowboarding, Onsen (温泉), Traveling, Drift diving, Snowboarding, Kendo (剣道), Animation, CG, Transhumanism, Artificial intelligence, Neural networks, Supercomputing, Generation of natural phenomena, Linguistics, Sumo (相撲), Art culinaire, Visual arts